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Rodney Dangerfield: Biography

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  • Birth Name: Jacob Cohen
  • Birth Place: Babylon, NY
  • Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 11/22/1921, Scorpio
  • Date of Death: 10/05/2004
  • Profession: Comedian; actor; writer
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Rodney Dangerfield Fast Facts:
  • Started writing jokes when he was 15 and began performing at 20.
  • Claimed that he only saw his father for about two hours a year while growing up.
  • Started his performing career as a singing waiter and comic under the name Jack Roy.
  • Was 44 when he received his first big break by appearing on The Ed Sullivan Show.
  • Credited the movie The Godfather with inspiring his famous quip "I don't get no respect.."
  • Starred as an eccentric millionaire in the 1986 comedy Back to School.
  • Played against type as an abusive father in the 1994 crime drama Natural Born Killers.
  • Was the first entertainer to personally own a Web site when he launched one in 1995.
  • In 1996, was awarded $1 in damages for emotional distress from a lawsuit filed against Star magazine after it printed a story regarding Dangerfield's reported drug use. Less than 10 years later he released his autobiography It's Not Easy Being Me: A Lifetime of No Respect But Plenty of Sex and Drugs.
  • Is buried in Los Angeles, where his headstone reads "There Goes the Neighborhood."
  • Rodney Dangerfield Relationships:
  • Joyce Indig - Ex-wife
  • Brian - Son
  • Melanie Roy-Friedman - Daughter
  • Joan Child - Wife
  • Phillip Cohen - Father
  • Marion - Sister
  • Rodney Dangerfield Awards:
  • 1980 Grammy: Best Comedy Recording - Winner

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Rodney Dangerfield, Jay Leno, Hollywood Walk of fame Steve Grayson/WireImage.com
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